maceration

Latin mācerātiō.

• IPA^(key): /mæsəˈɹeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

maceration (countable and uncountable, plural macerations)

1. The act or process of macerating.
   • 2001, Ralph E. Molnar, H. Trevor Clifford, “An Ankylosaurian Cololite from the Lower Cretaceous of Queensland, Australia”, in Kenneth Carpenter, editor, The Armored Dinosaurs, page 404:

     […] proposed that the small size of the teeth […] implied that most of the maceration of the food occurred after swallowing.

• cryomaceration

• aeromantic, cameration, racemation